Word: tight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions on his throttle: tight closed and wide open...
...forward line had many chances, but missed many easy shots. The failure of both teams to follow up the long shots, rather than a tight defensive, accounted for the low score...
...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...
...What," asked newshawks of Baltimore & Ohio's tight-mouthed Daniel Willard as he emerged one day last week from the President's office, "was the purpose of your visit to the White House...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the Presidency in the belief that somehow he would put money into their empty pockets. This belief grew out of Governor Roosevelt's reiterated campaign promise to "restore the purchasing power of Agriculture." But the President-elect was wary never to tie himself up tight to any specific relief plan. His intention is to call all important farm leaders, spokesmen, organizers and agitators to the White House after March 4 and keep them there until they agree among themselves upon a legislative program for him to sponsor. The makings of such a program began...